Exhibit 99.0

PRUDENTIAL FINANCIAL, INC. ANNOUNCES 2002 RESULTS

Newark, NJ – Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU) today reported after-tax adjusted operating income for its Financial Services Businesses of $1.182 billion for the year ended December 31, 2002, compared to $826 million for 2001. Adjusted operating income was $2.12 per share of Common Stock in 2002, compared to $1.42 per Common share in 2001 on an equivalent share basis, which assumes that shares issued in the company’s demutualization on December 18, 2001 and its initial public offering of Common Stock were outstanding for the entire 2001 period. Pre-tax adjusted operating income of the Financial Services Businesses was $1.780 billion in 2002, an increase of $431 million from $1.349 billion in 2001.

“Prudential Financial’s progress in its first year as a public company toward its goals of improved results in its core businesses, a lower cost structure, and enhanced returns through effective capital management, is evident in our results. Earnings per Common share, based on after-tax adjusted operating income, was within our originally targeted range for the year, despite the effect of difficult equity market conditions in 2002,” said Chairman and CEO Arthur F. Ryan. “Inclusive of the benefits we expect from our recently announced agreement to acquire American Skandia, we believe that Prudential will achieve Common Stock earnings per share in the range of $2.50 to $2.65 for the year 2003, based on after-tax adjusted operating income. The 2003 expectation assumes continuation of all of Prudential’s existing businesses and appreciation in the S&P 500 index of 8% for the year,” Ryan said. This expectation is subject to change if these assumptions are not realized and as discussed under “Forward Looking Statements” below.

For the fourth quarter of 2002, after-tax adjusted operating income for the Financial Services Businesses was $228 million (43 cents per Common share), compared to $136 million (23 cents per equivalent Common share) for the fourth quarter of 2001. Pre-tax adjusted operating income of the Financial Services Businesses was $324 million for the 2002 fourth quarter, an increase of $108 million from $216 million in the year-ago quarter.

After-tax adjusted operating income excludes realized investment gains, net of losses and related adjustments, results from divested businesses, sales practices remedies and costs, and discontinued operations, as well as demutualization costs and expenses in 2001. Net income of the Financial Services Businesses, which includes the foregoing items, was $679 million ($1.25 per Common share) for the year ended

December 31, 2002, compared to $302 million (52 cents per equivalent Common share) for 2001. Net income of the Financial Services Businesses amounted to losses of $71 million for the fourth quarter of 2002 (10 cents per Common share) and $403 million for the year-ago quarter (69 cents per equivalent Common share). During the fourth quarter of 2002, the Company announced its exit from the European retail securities brokerage business. The results of this business are included in discontinued operations for all periods presented.

In the following business-level discussion, adjusted operating income refers to pre-tax results.

Financial Services Businesses

Prudential Financial’s Common Stock (NYSE:PRU) reflects the performance of its Financial Services Businesses, which consist of its Insurance, Investment, and International Insurance and Investments divisions and its Corporate and Other operations.

The Insurance division reported pre-tax adjusted operating income of $107 million for the fourth quarter of 2002, an increase of $36 million from $71 million in the year-ago quarter. Our Individual Life and Annuities segment reported adjusted operating income of $85 million for the current quarter, a $32 million increase from the year-ago quarter. The segment’s individual life insurance business reported adjusted operating income of $70 million in the current quarter, compared to $31 million in the year-ago quarter which included implementation costs of our expense reduction program amounting to $78 million. A spike in mortality experience in the current quarter had an estimated negative impact of approximately $50 million on adjusted operating income in comparison to the year-ago quarter. The segment’s individual annuity business reported adjusted operating income of $15 million in the current quarter, compared to $22 million in the year-ago quarter. Our Group Insurance segment reported adjusted operating income of $52 million in the current quarter, an increase of $31 million from the year-ago quarter, reflecting more favorable disability claims experience and a lower level of expenses, including consulting costs. Our Property and Casualty Insurance segment reported a loss, on an adjusted operating income basis, of $30 million for the current quarter, compared to a $3 million loss in the year-ago quarter. The current quarter loss included a $33 million write-off of goodwill.

The Investment division reported pre-tax adjusted operating income of $36 million in the fourth quarter of 2002, an increase of $32 million from $4 million in the year-ago quarter. Our Investment Management segment reported adjusted operating income of $27 million for the current quarter, an increase of $8 million from the year-ago quarter. The increase came from a lower level of expenses, reflecting employee termination costs in the year-ago quarter, which more than offset lower fees in the current quarter due to market value declines in our equity assets under management. Our Financial Advisory segment reported a loss, on an adjusted operating income basis, of $28 million for the current quarter, compared to a $39 million loss in the year-ago quarter. The segment’s results for the year-ago quarter included $20 million that Prudential Securities earned as

co-manager in the initial public offering of our Common stock, which is offset by a corresponding charge in our Corporate and Other results for that quarter. The decrease in the segment’s loss resulted primarily from our cost reduction measures, which more than offset declines in transaction-based and other revenues. Adjusted operating income from our Retirement and Other Asset Management segments amounted to $37 million in the current quarter, compared to $24 million in the year-ago quarter.

The International Insurance and Investments division reported pre-tax adjusted operating income for the fourth quarter of 2002 of $174 million, an increase of $21 million from $153 million in the year-ago quarter. The International Insurance segment reported adjusted operating income of $180 million for the quarter, compared to $172 million for the year-ago quarter. The segment’s Gibraltar Life operations reported adjusted operating income of $71 million for the current quarter, compared to $77 million for last year’s fourth quarter, which included $6 million of gains from policy surrenders associated with the initial period of operations after its restructuring. Gibraltar Life’s $71 million adjusted operating income for the current quarter reflects increased reserves of about $11 million resulting from stronger policy persistency than we expected at this stage of its operations, as well as a higher level of policy benefits than that of the year’s first nine months. Adjusted operating income from our international insurance operations other than Gibraltar Life was $109 million, up $14 million from the year-ago quarter. The current quarter’s results reflect a favorable impact of $12 million from a change in our estimate of capitalized costs associated with new sales and a negative impact of $8 million, versus the year-ago quarter, from currency fluctuations. Our International Investments segment reported losses, on an adjusted operating income basis, of $6 million in the current quarter and $19 million in the year-ago quarter. The decrease in the segment’s loss reflected a lower expense level in the current quarter. These results exclude our European retail securities brokerage activities, which we reported in discontinued operations for all periods.

Corporate and Other operations resulted in pre-tax adjusted operating income of $7 million in the fourth quarter of 2002, compared to a loss, on an adjusted operating income basis, of $12 million in the year-ago quarter.

Assets under management and administration amounted to $556 billion at December 31, 2002, compared to $590 billion at December 31, 2001. Assets under management were $373 billion at December 31, 2002, a decrease of $15 billion from a year earlier. The decrease reflects the market value declines in our equity assets under management.

The effective tax rate applied to adjusted operating income of the Financial Services Businesses was 33.6% for the full year. The exclusion of our European retail securities brokerage activities, which are now part of discontinued operations, resulted in a reduction of the rate from the 34.5% that was applied during the first nine months of the

year. This reduction contributed $13 million to after-tax adjusted operating income for the current quarter.

Net income of the Financial Services Businesses for the fourth quarter of 2002 amounted to a loss of $71 million, compared to a loss of $403 million in the year-ago quarter. Current quarter net income included $278 million of realized investment losses, net of related adjustments, losses of $68 million from divested businesses and a loss of $58 million (net of related taxes) from discontinued operations. The realized losses in the current quarter included losses of $385 million from impairments and sales of credit-impaired securities, which were partially offset by realized gains from fixed maturities, including private bond prepayments. The loss from divested businesses includes a charge of $79 million in connection with a stop-loss reinsurance agreement the company entered into in 2000 when it sold a subsidiary engaged in the commercial property and casualty insurance business. The loss from discontinued operations is primarily attributable to our exit from the European retail securities brokerage business. The net loss of the Financial Services Businesses for the year-ago quarter included realized investment losses, net of related adjustments, of $132 million, reflecting losses of $266 million from impairments and sales of credit-impaired securities, as well as demutualization costs and expenses of $389 million and losses from divested businesses totaling $25 million.

Closed Block Business

Prudential’s Class B Stock, which is not traded on any exchange, reflects the performance of its Closed Block Business.

The Closed Block Business, which represents results of our Traditional Participating Products segment prior to the demutualization, includes our in-force participating life insurance and annuity policies, and assets that are being used for the payment of benefits and policyholder dividends on these policies, as well as other assets and equity that support these policies. We have ceased offering these participating policies.

The Closed Block Business reported losses from operations before income taxes of $186 million for the fourth quarter of 2002 and $236 million for the year-ago quarter. Closed Block Business results included net realized investment losses of $205 million in the current quarter and $270 million in the year-ago quarter.

The Closed Block Business reported a fourth quarter 2002 net loss of $122 million, compared to a net loss of $103 million for the year-ago quarter.

For the year ended December 31, 2002, the Closed Block Business reported a $757 million loss from operations before income taxes, compared to a $619 million loss for 2001. The Closed Block Business reported net losses of $485 million for the year ended December 31, 2002 and $456 million for 2001.

Consolidated Results

There is no legal separation of the Financial Services Businesses and the Closed Block Business, and holders of the Common Stock and the Class B Stock are both common stockholders of Prudential Financial, Inc.

On a consolidated basis, which includes the results of both the Financial Services Businesses and the Closed Block Business, Prudential Financial, Inc. reported net losses of $193 million for the fourth quarter of 2002 and $506 million for the year-ago quarter, and reported net income of $194 million for the year ended December 31, 2002, and a net loss of $154 million for 2001.

Share Repurchase Program

During the fourth quarter of 2002, the company repurchased 8.2 million shares of its Common Stock, at a total cost of approximately $250 million. From the commencement of share repurchases in May, 2002, through December 31, 2002, the company repurchased 26.0 million shares of its Common Stock at a total cost of approximately $800 million. This included 1.7 million shares repurchased and reissued directly to a company deferred compensation plan.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain of the statements included in this release, including (but not limited to) those in the third paragraph hereof, constitute forward-looking statements within the meaning of the U. S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Words such as “expects,” “believes,” “anticipates,” “intends,” “plans,” “assumes,” “estimates,” “projects,” or variations of such words are generally part of forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are made based on management’s current expectations and beliefs concerning future developments and their potential effects upon Prudential Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries. There can be no assurance that future developments affecting Prudential Financial, Inc. and its subsidiaries will be those anticipated by management. These forward-looking statements are not a guarantee of future performance and involve risks and uncertainties, and there are certain important factors that could cause actual results to differ, possibly materially, from expectations or estimates reflected in such forward-looking statements, including without limitation: general economic, market and political conditions, including the performance of financial markets, interest rate fluctuations and the continuing impact of the events of September 11, 2001; volatility in the securities markets; reestimates of our reserves for future policy benefits and claims; our exposure to contingent liabilities; catastrophe losses; investment losses and defaults; changes in our claims-paying or credit ratings; competition in our product lines and for personnel; fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and foreign securities markets; risks to our international operations; the impact of changing regulation or adverse litigation results; and changes in tax law. Prudential Financial, Inc. does not intend, and

is under no obligation to, update any particular forward-looking statement included in this document. The information referred to above, as well as the risks of our businesses described in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2001, should be considered by readers when reviewing forward-looking statements contained in this release.

Earnings Conference Call

Members of Prudential’s senior management will host a conference call on Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 11 a.m. ET, to discuss with the investment community the company’s fourth quarter results. The conference call will be broadcast live over the company’s Investor Relations Web site at: http://www.investor.prudential.com. Please log on fifteen minutes early in the event necessary software needs to be downloaded. The call will remain on the Investor Relations Web site for replay through February 19. Institutional investors, analysts, and other members of the professional financial community are invited to listen to the call and participate in Q&A by dialing (877) 260-8896 (domestic callers) or (612) 338-1917 (international callers). All others are encouraged to dial into the conference call in listen-only mode, using the same numbers. To listen to a replay of the conference call starting at 4:15 p.m. on February 12, dial (800) 475-6701 (domestic callers) or (320) 365-3844 (international callers). The access code for the replay is 669819.

Prudential Financial companies serve individual and institutional customers worldwide and include The Prudential Insurance Company of America, one of the largest life insurance companies in the U.S. These companies offer a variety of products and services, including life insurance, property and casualty insurance, mutual funds, annuities, pension and retirement related services and administration, asset management, securities brokerage, banking and trust services, real estate brokerage franchises and relocation services. For more information, visit www.prudential.com.

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Financial Highlights

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Financial Services Businesses Division Highlights

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Financial Services Businesses Division Highlights

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